ExhibitionUCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition: NEW ALCHEMY

In honor of the tenth anniversary of UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM), twelve emerging artists present "New Alchemy", a graduate exhibition exploring processes of transformation. Works include sculptural installations, interactive documentary, playable digital media experiences, and the re-creation of a 1940s shantyboat. Curated by Jaime Austin.

"I would like the spectatorship to understand in they only way that they can. If they want to know more they can talk to me. The question you should ask yourselves when watching is Why is she doing this? A spectator will always be rethinking because they are watching from a unique position. If people receive my work through their senses it means that they are in some kind of relation to me. Their interpretations can give me new meanings too, or we can develop the concepts further together. "(Linnea Martinsson)

ExhibitionUCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition: NEW ALCHEMY

by Laura Gonzales

"Whatever
your gender, your body is politicised in ways you cannot control. If
you are female, or gender queer, there is also a fight against power.
The works in Body Anxiety specifically problematise the image of women
in the media and in the art world. Women artists, they claim with good
arguments, are powerless; sothe show gives time and space to a group of
artists the curators call ‘female painters’. She recontextualises
painting for this exhibition, where most artists use their own bodies as
canvases for video performances, sound works, photographs and writing.
Perhaps this is peinture féminine to Helene Cixous’ écriture féminine." >>complete article>>

Publication Mainframe Experimentalism

By Bob Myers

Early Computing And The Foundations Of The Digital ArtsEdited by Hannah B Higgins and Douglas KahnUniversity of California Press, 2012ISBN 978-0-520-26838-8

"The history of arts computing's heroic age is a family affair in Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn's Mainframe Experimentalism.
Starting with the founding legend of the FORTRAN programming workshops
that one of the editors' parents led in their New York apartment in the
60s, the book quickly broadens across continents and decades to cover
the mainframe and minicomputer period of digital art. Several of the
chapters are also written by children of the artists. Can they make the
case that the work they grew up with is of wider interest and value?"

Exhibition The Hinges of "Reality"

Curated by Thomas Osborne

"This exhibition seeks to delve into the immensely dense conflict that is
the defining of reality. For many the existential (I'm using this term
loosely) question tends to be the utmost important question one asks in
today's authority obsessed culture. This exhibit seeks to ask why is
some information more valid than other sorts? What is the nature of the
very concept of "idea", of "thought" and "expression"?
The artworks presented here have thus been chosen specifically for a
subversive, or sampling quality that pulls from information from what
"exists" as a concrete aspect of our culture, such as the assumed
verisimilitude of the news in "Fake is a Fake", and either allows the
expansion of information for self-reflection, or for a further artistic
purpose.The exhibit will also display pieces that have to do with how
identity is performed and how interactions are made through the medium
of the internet.
"

ExhibitionDeconstructing the Narrative; Making the Illusive Physical

Curated by Georgina Gomez

"Visualising
cognitive processes such as thoughts, emotions and ideas can present
the conceptual as physical; externalising them so that they can be
preserved to memory. Joseph Campbell, a theorist on narrative
structures, wrote “Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is
the meaning.” All the artworks exhibited are “alive” and interactive,
whether their narrative structure is discarded or embraced. Fictive or
real, these pieces take the formerly passive observer of narrative form
and force viewers to create an individualised, illusional “story-scape”.
The amorphous nature of such visual envisioning echoes the structural
boundlessness of the internet itself, and of human consciousness. "

ExhibitionIdentity - Expression Through Multiple Mediums

Curated by Elizabeth De Leon

"My inspiration for this project was Danah Boyd's idea of "Identity
Performance" and how identity can be expressed online through text,
image, audio and video. Identity as a form of self expression has, over
time, succumbed to society's stereotypical notions of what the "perfect"
identity should be(What the perfect image of oneself should be). First
of all, what does the politics of identity entail? How a person looks,
acts, or what a person does. These notions are constantly changing and
what today may be considered as beautiful and is excepted, tomorrow it
may be rejected. In any case, the way identity is expressed will always
evolve and what we hold to be the ideal identity, will change as well.
Nonetheless, what this exhibition attempts to do, is showcase different
methods in which multiple individuals portray their own versions of how
identity can be expressed and what identity is to them."

ExhibitionDo You Follow? Art in Circulation at ICA London at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London

Curated by Michael Connor

"With
the screen arguably now the primary site of encounter for contemporary
art, this talks series, taking place as part of ICA Off-Site: The Old
Selfridges Hotel, examines the ways in which internet circulation has
affected art practice and art's function."Do You Follow? Art in
Circulation" begins with the premise that images do not merely depict
their surrounding reality, but actively produce and shape it in
economic, social, and physical ways. With the advent of the internet,
the image's power to effect such transformation has greatly expanded. As
a result, image production is by default a posthuman process, subject
to the demands of global flows. Images circulating on a network may
produce far-flung realities, in unpredictable ways. Some even claim that
the world is becoming an image."

Exhibition Somebody, An evening with Miranda July

the New Museum, New York City

"Join prolific artist and filmmaker Miranda July for a special evening
where she will describe and demo her new text-messaging service: Somebody™.
The service, an iOS application available for free download via the
iTunes Store, continues July’s longstanding exploration of ways to
humanize our interactions with technology. She describes the operation
of the application in the following way: “When you send your friend a
message through Somebody, it goes—not to your friend—but to the Somebody
user nearest your friend. This person (probably a stranger) delivers
the message verbally, acting as your stand-in.”

Seven on Seven London

at Barbican Centre

Seven on Seven pairs seven leading artists with
seven luminary technologists, and challenges them to develop something
new—be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever
they imagine—over the course of a single day. They unveil these ideas
for the first time at this event. Loosely inspired by what was to become Experiments in Art and
Technology (E.A.T)’s 1966 event 9 Evenings, Seven on Seven examines the
current nature of collaboration in art and technology — and the role of
each in contemporary culture — by generating deep conversation between
two leading figures. The Barbican event, organized by Rhizome, marks the first London
version of a four time sold-out conference. Past Seven on Seven teams
have included David Karp (Tumblr) with Ryan Trecartin, Aaron Swartz
(DemandProgress) with Taryn Simon, Dennis Crowley (Foursquare) with Jill
Magid and more.

Event FLUX Art Fair in Harlem

A contemporary art fair in the culturally rich community of Harlem. FLUX Art Fair is a dynamic artistic platformengaging
an international community of collectors and those who simply
appreciate art to discover artists and discover the vitality of Harlem.
Driven by curators collaborating with artists, FLUX Fair contributes to
the vibrancy of Harlem by expanding the scene beyond the walls of the
fair, partnering with cultural institutions and creating opportunity for
rising Harlem artists within the fair. Guest Curators select lead
artists to present significant signature works linking emerging artists
to a broader spectrum of art collectors.

The MFA programs, offered with concentrations in Painting or in
Sculpture, continue the ethos of the teaching methods defined
by the School's history within a recognized degree program. The
MFA is based on maintaining a full-time, rigorous studio
practice. Students are engaged in their work a minimum of 40 hours per
week for the duration of their two years at the School.Studio practice is balanced with Critical Studies courses, in
addition to peer and instructed critiques. Lectures and seminars are
held throughout the semester, as well as small group discussion with
current and visiting faculty. The Critical Studies courses provide the
groundwork for students to compose the statements that support their
final thesis project.

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RESIDENCY 4 weeks in Romania

Dacia
Gallery invites artists to participate in an exciting Artist Residency
program in Romania. The residency is located in Transylvania at the
foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the medieval city of Sibiu. The
Sibiu Artist Residency provides an academic program to inspire, refine
and redefine the creative direction of artists in a figure and landscape
painting intensive four-week program. Including two art exhibitions,
one in Sibiu, Romania and one at Dacia Gallery in New York City. For
more information and to register please visit: www.daciagallery.com

RESIDENCY Summer-Winter 2016 Residents at Silent Barn

Silent Barn is a welcoming community of artists and musicians,
living, working and playing together in our 3 floor building in
Bushwick, Brooklyn. The building houses with two performance spaces, a
yard and co-working spaces. We have over twenty multidisciplinary studio
spaces, four 2br apartments, a cafe/bar, and host public events daily.
We are acccepting applications for residencies on a rolling basis, and
are actively seeking applicants to move in throughout the Summer and
Fall of 2016.

Through Silent Barn, Residents have access to Materials for the Arts,
New York City’s premier reuse center. Our residency program functions
as a live/work residency -- the room you inhabit will also double as
your main workspace, with access to shared resources and plenty of
opportunity for collaborations with the funny little society we've
created together

Peripheral ARTeries is now accepting submissions for Mixed Media:
visual artists from the worldwide scene working in a variety of media
and disciplines are invited to submit their works.

We’ll seek to explore
issues and concepts in relation to the embodied experience in time and
space; the hybridization between identities and cultures; as well as the
binary constructs of social spaces and identities.

From the curatorial perspective, the main focus of Mixed Media will be on the intersections between perception, memory and identity.

The challenge becomes strategizing and
synthesizing the disorder that is unavoidable when combining varying
mediums.

Neo Future program brings together international, future-oriented
artists & creators. Located in the middle of nowhere in rural
Finland, Arteles Creative Center serves as the ideal place to envision,
outline and work on your own futuristic sceneries and scenarios. Share
approaches and get inspired with other artists and visionaires willing
to go beyond here & now, to come up with something 'neo'.

OPPORTUNITY Still Life 2015, International Photographic call

Founded
in 2004 by photographers, The Center for Fine Art Photography is
a nonprofit project

Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City

Luxembourg
& Dayan has developed a unique program focused mainly on
exhibitions of significant but under-appreciated postwar European
artists. Operating on the fringe of European Pop, Arte Povera, and
Nouveau Réalisme, idiosyncratic artists like Domenico Gnoli, Mario
Schifano, Martial Raysse, César, and Enrico Baj were marginalized from
dominant discourse for decades. In revisiting these artists, the gallery
has renewed critical interest in their oeuvres. . Though the gallery
does not represent artists, it has established strong, ongoing
relationships with artists and estates. http://www.luxembourgdayan.com

Hales Gallery, Deptford, South London

Founded
by Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin over 20 years ago, Hales Gallery opened
in 1992 as a contemporary art space in Deptford, South London.In March
2016 Hales opened a permanent office and viewing gallery in New York's
Lower East Side district. The expansion, headed by Hales Director Stuart
Morrison, acts as a platform through which to further reinforce the
connection between the London gallery's roster of artists and the
international art community. http://www.halesgallery.com

Simon Lee Gallery, London

Simon
Lee Gallery was founded in 2002 in Mayfair, London. It represents
artists of diverse generations whose practices range from sculpture and
painting to video and photography and who share a broad interest in an
exploration of the conceptual. Aiming to provide a significant British
and international audience for its artists, the gallery also regularly
punctuates its programme with historical exhibitions and curated group
shows. The
gallery publishes catalogues and artist’s monographs. http://www.simonleegallery.com

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture will present a new exhibition
entitled Temporary Structures in Gorky Park: From Melnikov to Ban from
20 October to 9 December 2012 in a newly created temporary pavilion in
Moscow’s Gorky Park, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Showing
rare archival drawings –many of which have never been seen before – the
exhibition will begin by revealing the profound history of structures
created in the park since the site was first developed in 1923, before
moving through the Russian avant-garde period to finish with some of the
most interesting contemporary unrealized designs created by Russian
architects today.

By their nature, temporary structures erected for a specific event or
happening have always encouraged indulgent experimentation, and
sometimes this has resulted in ground-breaking progressive design. This
exhibition recognizes such experimentation and positions the pavilion or
temporary structure as an architectural typology that oscillates
between art object and architectural prototype. In Russia, these
structures or pavilions – often constructed of insubstantial materials –
allowed Soviet architects the ability to express the aspirations of the
revolution. They frequently became vehicles for new architectural and
political ideas, and they were extremely influential within Russian
architectural history.

Temporary
Structures also reveals the evolution of a uniquely Russian ‘identity’
within architecture and the international context, which has developed
since the 1920s and continues today.

Group Exhibition “Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Contemporary Visions on China” to be displayed in Taipei

by Sue Wang on Nov 5, 2012 • 10:44 am

This year sees the third consecutive year
of the fascinating annual exhibition hosted by Yi&C, and is again
organized by collector Rudy Tseng 1. The opening of
this exhibition will be held on November 9th in coordination with the
schedule of Art Taipei 2012.

Besides Part 1 of the exhibition in
Yi&C Contemporary Art, the second part of the exhibition will be
extended to a new space—Artrans Fine Art Storage, an individual stand
alone building in Neihu where three out of six-story building where a
portion of the art works will be exhibited. The theme of this exhibition
is Chinese contemporary art. Italian curator Davide Quadrio, a long-term inhabitant of Shanghai who speaks fluent Mandarin, is invited to curate this grand-scale exhibition, along with Jenny Lee as the assistant curator.The title is inspired from Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s movie of the same title, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Buñuel collaborated with Salvador Dali in producing Un Chien Andalou,
a classic film of surrealism, which deeply influenced Latino films
directors such as Pedro Almodóvar Caballero in Spain.

Art In FLUX - Art Night

by Leanne Stella

Art
In FLUX - Art Night is launching multiple art events in one evening.In FLUX launches City of Curiosities, a public
art installation at the NE corner of 121st and Frederick Douglass Blvd.After party at Angel of Harlem, with DJ Medina and
happy hour all night long, 2272 Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 122nd Street Woe-nderland and City of Curiosities fall within Art in FLUX’s 2017
curatorial theme “Re-Imagining a City” where artists use art, play and
community engagement as a catalyst for examining and conceptualizing
urban life. Woe-nderland curated by Henone Girma features five NYC-based
artists – Belinda James, Ben Ponté, Elan Ferguson, JaSon Auguste, and
Tariku Shiferaw. The title Woe-nderland takes as its point of departure
the 1996 single ‘If I Ruled the World’ by recording artist Nas that
begins with “Life, I wonder, will it take me under, I don’t know” – a
simultaneous testimony to the ills of society and contemplation of its
potentials.

SCINTILLATION - Aqua Aura solo exhibition

Aller Strasse 38 Berlin 12049

“Scintillation” is the name of the solo
exhibition dedicated to the works of the visionary italian artist Aqua
Aura which will inaugurate the artistic season 2017 at the freshly
renewed Cell63 art platform. www.cell63.com

Performing Arts Festival Berlin 13-18 June

Berlin’s independent performing arts community invites you to more than
120 productions at over 60 locations all over the city! From theater to
performance, puppet theater, music theater, dance all the way to
installations and site-specific work. A very contemporary Faust will
meet a virtual chatbot version of Heiner Müller, pieces about
capitalism, cybernetic bodies, gender and gentrification will meet
sci-fi versions of the big bang, family comedies and much more. Strong
performances, guided tours, “hiking trails”, presentations and
discussions, early bird specials and late night specials in the festival
center: check out the schedule of events and go to the theater!

65°, A PERFORMANCE by Madeline Hollander

Madeline Hollander’s dance-based works use familiar gestures culled from daily routines, from iPhone swipes and yoga poses, to the Transportation Security Administration’s “pat-downs;” from forms of menial labor to unconscious tics. In her new performance 65°, Hollander takes as a point of a departure the environmental standards that art institutions use for displaying and storing works of art. Using the prescribed temperature threshold of 65 degrees Fahrenheit as an axis for the performance, Hollander, in collaboration with three other dancers, establishes choreographed movement as the paradoxical object of conservation. In the otherwise empty gallery space, the moving bodies become the objects on display; their heat and energy set in motion a process of entropy whose rules gradually reveal themselves.

Bibliothèque Kandinsky's Summer University 5th Edition

The Bibliothèque Kandinsky's Summer University is a Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou research program installed on the very premises of the museum. It focuses on modern and contemporary art primary sources: archives, documentary materials (both written and visual), interviews, records, as well as new forms of artistic appropriation and documentary production. Interdisciplinary in format, the Summer University brings together young researchers: historians, art historians, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, critics and curators who share a collective reflection with art professionals and various scholars around primary source materials. It will be held in one of the museum rooms, around a conference table, used at the same time as a workspace and an exhibition device for the display of documents. Facsimiles, reproductions, and archival material will be unfolded in the space during the working sessions. Several writing workshops will rhythm the program, as well as visits to various documentary collections. Editorial work is at the heart of the Summer University: a new issue of the 'Journal de l'Université d'été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky'—conceived both as a critical anthology based on the debates during the sessions and as an experimental production—will be released at the end of the session.

'Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.' Stephane Mallarmé's famous words have lastingly marked the experiments with as well as the research on artists' publications, inspiring definitions, appropriations, and modes of activation. In an extended attempt to draw the borders of these particular genres, Ulises Carrión once remarked that 'artists have started publishing books and magazines, distributing them, managing galleries and other art centres, organizing cultural events that involve various media and specialized professions. In other words, they have abandoned the sacred realm of art and entered the wider, less well contoured field of culture.' For its fifth session, Bibliothèque Kandinsky's Summer University will address the plural phenomenon of publishing in the art field in all its diversity. It will seek to capture the various networks, exchanges, contexts, and the multiple geographies that inform the creative decisions at stake in this variegated production. It will also echo the recent reflexions on the status and evolution of the artists' book caught between the imperatives of digital turn and alternative editorial strategies, and discuss the contours of an extremely versatile genre. Indeed, artists' publications resist any restrictive classification, as one can't help but notice, amongst their specificities, the formal singularities and unremitting ingeniousness of their varied production methods.

Call for Artists Peripheral ARTeries is inviting entries for the competition to find the most interesting emerging worldwide artists in various fine arts disciplines.

The contest, on its 10th edition, comes under the sign of collaborative networking and will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art.

All we aim to is to encouraging artists to innovate and create. Accordingly, worldwide artists at any career-stage can submit their works. Several kinds of art are welcomed, even though we use to focus on visual arts. Each artist may submit a maximum of three works made in any technique:

The call is open to all proposed forms of art and media and we focus to works which causes people to reflect on the larger community and a kind of art capable of changelling the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. The competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists to work between the boundaries of Contemporary Art.

You can send related materials, such as your CV, photos of your works, -or, if you are a video artist - links to the works you want to submit to peripheral.arteries@europe.com

NEWSWinter 2018 Special Issue released!

For this special edition we had the chance to interview 12 artists from the international scenario whose works establishe an effective combination between conceptual and socio politicised practice, giving birth to a stimulating mix of pure art and deep social engagement. Their refined multidisciplinary approaches give life to an incessant process of recontextualization, that provides the viewers of an extension ofthe basic human perception, in order to manipulate it, releasing it from its mostprimordial, limbic parameters. Overtly playin with the unheimlich nature of gestural movements and sound, as well as traditional brushstrokes and photography, their pieces reveal the tendency to exist in continuum, residing somewhere in our collective memory.We are particularly pleased to introduce our readers to their multifaceted artistic productions.

The competition is absolutely free, there are no entry fees and it turns to the broader public. Only selected artists will be asked of a symbolic contribution in order to support the independence of Peripheral ARTeries

The January 2014 issue of Peripheral ARTeries Art Review is out!

You can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have published for this issue

Ellen van der Schaaf (Belgium)

Adel Gorgy(USA)

Ana Cvejic(Serbia)

Jolanda Straathof(the Netherlands)

Tugba Renkci(Turkey)

Sharyn O'Shaughnessy(Ireland)

Tanya Stadnichenko (Russia)

Kristina Sereikaite (Germany)

Scott D'Arcy (United Kingdom)

Oxana Jad (Germany / Russia)

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The February 2014 issue of Peripheral ARTeries Art Review is finally out!

You can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have published for this issue

Brian Franklin(USA)

Riedstra (Germany)

Larry Williams (USA)

Alina Serebrennikov(Russia)

Ralph Klewitz (USA)

Stella Karageorgi (Greece)

Elah (Belgium)

Jodie Woodcock (USA)

Marcel Burger(Belgium)

Jolanta Gmur(Serbia)

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The January 2014 issue of Peripheral ARTeries Art Review is out!

You can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have published for this issue

Below you can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have selected

JENNIFER SIMS (USA)

HORTENESE LE CALVEZ (France)

MATHIEU GOUSSIN(France)

SARAH HILL (USA)

BAHAR B. FARAZ (Iran / USA)

DEREK SCHOLTE (The Netherlands)

OLVIA PUNNETT (USA)

AGENT X (Canada)

COURTNEY A. HENDERSON (USA)

LEFTERIS YAKOUMAKIS (Greece)

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The August issue of Peripheral ARTeries Art Review is finally out! :)

Below you can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have selected

PAUL HARRISON (USA)

HORTNESE LE CALVEZ (France)

JAMAL DE JONG(USA)

BRANDON BARR (USA)

TUOMAS KOSKIALHO (Russia)

DEREK SCHOLTE (The Netherlands)

MARILYN GAFFNEY (USA)

TAL REGEV (Israel)

ANTHONY MURRAY (USA)

SCHULTZ feat VDREY (France)

REBECCA MORADALIZADEH (USA)

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The November Special Issue of Peripheral ARTeries Art Review is finally out! :)Below you can read the interviews with the amazing artists that we have selected

PAUL HARRISON (USA)

HORTNESE LE CALVEZ (France)

THOMAS BREEZING(USA)

DOROTHY FU (USA)

TUOMAS KOSKIALHO (Russia)

CAROLINA SAIDENBERG (USA)

SIMON RAAB (USA)

BILJANA VESELINOVIC (Israel)

CRAIG St.CYR (Canada)

JOHANNES HOELDERL (USA)

ALFREDO GARCIA (USA)

GEORG GIANNAKOUDAKIS (Iceland)

KELSEY HUCKABY (USA)

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We are looking for creative minds, emerging artists and
professionals widely different artistic fields. Proposed ideas are of
more significant importance: we are particularly interested in
highlighting work in all media that pushes boundaries in terms of form
and content, is ambitious and timely, and is experimental and
risk-taking.

Prospecting participants must submit an abstract describing their works and additional attachments for a thorough evaluation of the contribution.Any further related materials as high resolution images, links to video or audio, pdf files, such as your CV and your artist's statement can be sent via email to our board directly to: mixed.media@europe.com

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All rights to the artworks inside wotisart magazine are reserved by the artists themselves. if you would like further information about any artworks featured, contact the magazine and we will forward any details we have. or alternativly you can contact the artists directly.

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Artist John Baldessarri in conversation with Leslie Jones, LACMA's curator

The artist in conversation with curator Leslie Jones.

John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists working
today. This long overdue retrospective will feature more than 150 works
spanning the artist's career from 1962 to the present day, and include
works on canvas, photography, videos and artist's books. Baldessari's
text and image paintings from the mid-1960s are widely recognized as
among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art, while his 1980s photo
compositions derived from film stills rank as pivotal to the development
of appropriation art and other practices that address the social and
cultural impact of mass culture. The exhibition is curated
by LACMA's Leslie Jones, Prints and Drawings, with Jessica Morgan,
Contemporary Art, at Tate Modern. It will also feature a special
installation conceived just for this retrospective.

Pauline Adamek interviews artist Sinan Revell about her exhibition at Cella Gallery in North Hollywood.

Born in China,
Sinan Revell was raised in Australia in a strong, multicultural
environment . Sinan graduated with a degree in Psychology from Sydney
University and later studied art at the Julian Ashton Art School. Her
love of the performing arts led her to study drama with renowned
Aboriginal teacher, Bryan Syron, and to several television and film
roles. She spent several years as a performing and recording artist and
band member with the industrial rock group, "SPK", touring Europe, the UK and the USA.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1991, Sinan returned to art making. She
began working in various media such as oil and acrylic paintings,
photography and performance art.

Critic Kenneth Baker Interviews Artist Tony Foster

Video produced and hosted by Pauline Adamek. Edited and styled by Ash Revell. Filming by Charlie Kanganis.

For nearly 35 years English artist Tony Foster has worked in the
World’s wildernesses - mountains and canyons, rainforests and deserts,
the Arctic and the Tropics.

Travelling slowly - on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his
painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to
what he finds on his journeys.

He does not use photography or sketches but makes his paintings on
site, often in the most difficult and uncomfortable circumstances.
Sometimes a large-scale work (up to 7 feet by 4 feet!) will take more
than two weeks on site before it is sufficiently resolved to roll into
its aluminium tube to be completed in his studio in Cornwall.

Interview with Canadian figurative painter Andrew Salgado

In 2015 Salgado curated The Fantasy of Representation at Beers London, including work by Francis Bacon, Gary Hume, and Hurvin Anderson.

Andrew Salgado has been hailed as one of the most promising young
figurative painters working today, riding atop 11 sold-out exhibitions,
and being endorsed by critics like Tony Godfrey, Edward Lucie-Smith, and
more. Saatchi Art calls him "one to invest in now"; and Artsy
states he 'complicates portraiture [with] a sense of frailty and
potency'. He has been featured in GQ, the Evening Standard, The
Independent, METRO, The Globe and Mail (CAN), Macleans (CAN), and
more. In 2015 Salgado curated The Fantasy of Representation at Beers
London, including work by Francis Bacon, Gary Hume, and Hurvin Anderson. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include TEN, a survey exhibition at The Canadian High Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, (Jan-Feb 2017) to coincide with an artist monograph of the same name available now for purchase HERE.

Jenny Saville in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan

Saville’s
works are featured in several public collections, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Saville’s
work was included in the 50th Biennale di Venezia in 2003.

Jenny Saville is joined in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan, Curator,
Tate Modern. This very special event is a rare opportunity to hear the
artist discuss her recent practice in the context of the exhibition at
Modern Art Oxford. British artist Jenny Saville (1970), one of the
Young British Artists, deconstructs the stereotypes of beauty and
eroticism of the female body as seen through art and through men, and
then broadens them. She experiments with obese women and changes in the
body, but above all she uses her own body as a model and means of
reflection. She reveals the natural beauty of the individuality of the
women she paints, and her own. This defines her artistic language as
much as her traditional pictorial technique. Figures are the sole focus
of attention of her huge canvasses, which often cannot contain the whole
figure in the same way that our selves cannot control our bodies.

"I really like how people contain their time, in their faces." Meet the
American artist Elizabeth Peyton in this interview about her interest in
the power of the individual in the middle of history, and her
fascination with love, creativity and the face.

New York and
Berlin based painter Elizabeth Joy Peyton (b.1965) is an American artist
best known for her stylized and idealized portraits of her close
friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities and European monarchy. In this
interview Peyton talks about how personality affects the features of a
face. How one person can change the world, and how people are part of
history, and "make their own time". Peyton has exhibited around the world and her work has been included at
the 1995 Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1 in 2000, and the 2004 Whitney
Biennial.

Gerhard Richter Interview: In Art We Find Beauty and Comfort

Gerhardt Richter was interviewed by Anders Kold at his studio in Cologne, Germany, in September 2016.

“I don’t really believe art has power. But it does have value. Those who
take an interest in it find solace in art. It gives them huge comfort.”
Gerhard Richter, one of the greatest painters of our time, discusses
beauty in the era of the Internet in this rare interview.

“These
days, beauty is not in fashion,” says Richter, who has explored painting
and its role in image culture for decades on his quest for a form of
painting that corresponds to contemporary challenges. Quoting German
author Thomas Mann, who predicted a change in art, Richter says: “Art
will shed all of its gravity and transform into something merry and
democratic.” But art has, in Richter’s view, surpassed even that. “It’s
now more than merry. There has never been so much art… We don’t need
it. We need entertainment. Sensations.”